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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. N. WHITELEY & W. BAYLEY.

AUTOMATIC BINDER.

Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

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AUTOMATIC BINDER.

No. 354,286. Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

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WILLIAM N. VVHITELEY AND WILLIAM 'BAYLEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO; SAID WILLIAM BAYLEY ASSIGNOR TO SAID WILLIAM N. WHITELEY.

AUTOMATIC BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,286, dated December 14, 1886.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, .VVILLIAM N. \VHITE LEY and \VILLIAMBAYLEY, of Springfield, in Clark county and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements inAutomatic Binders; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and accurate description of the same.

It is highly desirable thatthe heads of the grain shallbe drawn downwardoverthe binderdeck away from the elevator and from the inflowing grain, to effect a separation of the grain of the bundle from the unbound grain and thereby facilitate the discharge of the bound bundle. Various devices have already been made for this duty, and therefore we do not claim, broadly, ahead-rakeapplied toabinder, but confine ourselves to the kind of rake herein shown and described, which consists of an endless chain with fingers attached to enter and sweep the grain downward into the binder.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our machine. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of a part of the binder showing the invention in elevation. Figs. 3 and 4 are details.

A is the main frame supported upon the main bearing and driving wheel B.

G is the elevator-frame, and D is the plat form or deck of the automaticbinder.

E is the upper arm of the binder-frame, the binder represented being of the Appleby type. A sprocket-wheel, F, is mounted on said upper arm, and a similar sprocket, G, is mounted on the frame near the upper edge of the binder where itj oins the elevator. These two sprockets are located in the same plane. A chain, H, passesover and is carried by said sprockets. Motion is transmitted to said sprockets and chain from the motive gearing of the binder by chain-gear or otherwise, as convenient. At short intervals the chain H is provided with hinged fingers I, which hang down and are held in a vertical position as they pass downward over the deck D, penetrating and forcibly moving the grain down to the binder.

A guide track, K, is mounted on the frame in proper position to guide and support the teeth against the resistance of the straw as it moves over the deck D, and at thesame time the arms 7c slide on said cam-track, and the teeth are thereby kept upright and in working position.

To apply the sprocket-wheel F to the binderframe of machines already built requires that said wheel shall be made in two parts, as shown; but if at the time of building the binder it is contemplated to employ the sprocketwheel F, then, as it is evident, the upper arm of the binder-frame may be constructed to let said wheel pass over the end of said arm and reach its bearing.

Having described our invention, we claim 1. Asproeket orchain wheel inountedloosely upon the upper arm of the binder-fraine combined with a similar sprocket-wheel mounted on the frame near the head of the elevator,

driven as described, and a carrying-chain around said wheels to turn the heads of the graindown the binder-table for the purpose of facilitating the discharge of the bound bundies.

2. A sprocket or chain wheel mounted loosely upon the upper arm of the binder-frame, a similar sprocket-wheel mounted on the frame near the head of the elevator, driven as described, a carrying-chain around said wheels combined with fingers jointed to said chain, and a controllingtrack to hold said fingers in proper action, whereby the heads of the grain are moved downward over the deck of the binder to facilitate the discharge of the bound bundles.

WM. N. WHITELEY.

WILLIAM BAYLEY.

Witnesses:

L. PHILLIP, W. F. BEVITT. 

